On Mon, Oct 19, 2020, at 07:42, Steve Dower wrote: > On 15Oct2020 2239, Rob Cliffe via Python-Dev wrote: > > TLDR: In os.scandir directory entries, atime is always a copy of mtime > > rather than the actual access time. > > Correction - os.stat() updates the access time to _now_, while > os.scandir() returns the last access time without updating it.
This is surprising - do we know why this happens? Also, it doesn't seem true on my system with python 3.8.5 [and, yes, I checked that last access update is enabled for my test and updates normally when reading the file's contents]. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/GX3KD4UQKJONCLOZY743WXNGENXL7YG2/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
